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Unit 6: The Solar System
Unit 6: The Solar System
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Saturn is known for...
Large Moon Titan
No Moons
Shakespearean Moons
Great Red Spot
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Name this planetary configuration
Superior Conjunction
Maximum Elongation
Minimum Elongation
Inferior Conjunction
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This scientist worked with NASA, helped to found SETI, and is a cultural icon
Carl Sagan
Bill Nye
Neil Degrasse-Tyson
Beakman
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This moon of Jupiter has icy oceans all over
Europa
Io
Callisto
Ganymede
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Name this planetary configuration
Maximum Elongation
Opposition
Superior Conjunction
Conjunction
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What planetary configuration is this?
Inferior Conjunction
Conjunction
Superior Conjunction
Opposition
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The largest moon in the solar system
Callisto
Ganymede
Europa
Io
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Uranus is known for...
God of the Sea
No Moons
Largest Mountian
Spinning Sideways
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The Big Bang happened this many years ago
8 minutes
4.5 billion years
250 million years
13.7 billion years
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He first used a telescope for astronomy and supported Heliocentrism
Galileo
Copernicus
Huygens
Cassini
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This largest moon of Saturn has a thick atmosphere of methane
Europa
Triton
Oberon
Titan
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Dwarf Planets don't meet this criterion for full "Planet" status
...Exists
Goes Around the Sun
Round
Clears Neighborhood
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The giant shell of ice and debris encircling the solar system 1 Ly away
Heliosphere
Kuiper Belt
Oort Cloud
Asteroid Belt
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Name a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt
Quaoar
Eris
Haumea
MakeMake
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The cloud of debris circling a protostar
Protoplanetary Disk
Orbital Inclination
Kuiper Belt
Proplyd
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This is NOT considered necessary for life
Sunlight
Liquid
Energy Source
Organic Compounds
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What planetary configuration is this?
Inferior Conjunction
Opposition
Superior Conjunction
Maximum Elongation
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Mars is known for...
Large Rings
Great Red Spot
Rusty Soil
Thick Atmosphere
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These two moons of Mars are probably captured asteroids
Titania & Oberon
Europa & Io
Phobos & Deimos
Titan & Triton
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This Galilean moon is extremely volcanically active
Io
Callisto
Ganymede
Europa
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Jupiter is known for...
Predicted before Observed
4 Major Moons
Cratered Surface
Fastest Winds
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The first, small clumps of rocky debris in the early solar system
Planetesimals
Proplyds
Protoplanets
Protoplanetary
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Neptune is known for...
Warmest Gas Giant
Volcanic Activity
No Moons
Fastest winds
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The angle at which all the planets orbit around the solar system
Orbital Angle
Orbital Degree
Orbital Inclination
Orbital Declination
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This is NOT one of the six elements necessary for life
Sulfur
Hydrogen
Potassium
Nitrogen
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This equation is meant to demonstrate the likelihood of communicating with aliens
Alien Equation
SETI
Sagan Equation
Drake Equation
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The ring of rocky debris between Mars and Jupiter, home to Ceres
Oort Cloud
Asteroid Belt
Kuiper Belt
Heliosphere
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Ring of debris around outer solar system home to over 60 dwarf planets
Asteroid Belt
Oort Cloud
Kuiper Belt
Heliosphere
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Venus is known for...
Frozen Oceans
Thick Atmosphere
Extremely Cold
Many Moons
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This Pluto-demoter hosted the new series of Cosmos and was named "Sexiest Astrophysicst Alive"
Clyde Tombaugh
Bill Nye
Neil Degrasse-Tyson
Carl Sagan
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Mercury is known for...
Hottest
Lots of Frozen Water
2 Moons
Smallest & Fastest
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This Galilean moon is the most heavily cratered object
Europa
Io
Ganymede
Callisto
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The round beginnings of planets, the early solar system may have had dozens of them
Asteroids
Comets
Planetesimals
Protoplanets
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What planetary configuration is this?
Maximum Elongation
Inferior Conjuction
Opposition
Superior Conjunction
